10 Facts About Ultra Motorsports

Ultra Motorsports was a NASCAR Winston Cup and Craftsman Truck Series racing team.

Early in 2006, Ultra Motorsports announced that they would close up shop after a fallout with Ford.

Ultra Motorsports began running Winston Cup in 1994, when P J Jones drove the No 06 Ford Thunderbird at Phoenix, finishing 29th, nine laps down.

In 2001, Ultra Motorsports went back to fielding Fords and signed Mike Wallace to replace Waltrip.

Wallace struggled and with the season entering its first road race at Sonoma, Ultra decided to go with a more experienced road course driver and hired Robby Gordon, who had been hired to replace Bobby Hamilton in the No 4 Kodak car for Morgan-McClure Motorsports but was himself fired and replaced by Kevin Lepage early in the season, to drive the No 7 on the road course.

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In return, Evernham and Ultra would enter into a partnership where Ultra would switch from Ford to Dodge and the team would become known as Ultra-Evernham Motorsports, with Sirius Satellite Radio coming on to sponsor the No 7 and the team adopting Evernham's car numbering style.

Ultra Motorsports even expanded to field a second car for Ted Musgrave in selected races, carrying Sirius sponsorship and No 07.

Ultra Motorsports spent the offseason trying to work out a deal with Ford, but talks fell off, and Ultra Motorsports was forced to shut down.

Ultra Motorsports made its official Truck debut in the series' first race, the Copper World Classic at Phoenix.

Late in the season, Ultra Motorsports fielded the No 08 for John Borneman at Phoenix, who finished 29th.